4.11 Electoral College vote count and storming of the United States Capitol. 4.8 Friction with fellow Republican members of Congress. After the January 2021 Capitol attack, Cruz received widespread political and popular backlash for objecting to the certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election and giving credence to the false claim that the election was stolen from Trump. While Cruz initially declined to endorse Trump's campaign once he won the nomination, he became a staunch Trump supporter during his presidency. The competition for the Republican presidential nomination between Trump and Cruz was deeply acrimonious and characterized by a series of public personal attacks. In 2016, Cruz ran for president of the United States, placing second behind Donald Trump in the Republican primaries. He was reelected in a close Senate race in 2018 against Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke. In the Senate, Cruz has taken consistently conservative positions on economic and social policy he played a leading role in the 2013 United States federal government shutdown, seeking to force Congress and President Barack Obama to defund the Affordable Care Act. Senate, becoming the first Hispanic-American to serve as a U.S. 
Bush administration before serving as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008.
He worked as a policy advisor in the George W. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008.Īfter graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Cruz pursued a career in politics. Rafael Edward Cruz ( / k r uː z/ born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator for Texas since 2013.
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